Posted on 12/15/2008 7:08:31 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
This debacle of Governor Rod Blagojevich endeavoring to sell a U.S. Senate seat for mere personal enrichment proves once and for all that the state of Illinois is no longer an American state. It is so far around the bend that there is no longer any legitimacy to either the state or any local government. Illinois is no better than the worst banana republic.
We have arrived at a time when lucrative state posts have been multiplied without necessity, when people have become pensioners of the state without bounds, and government is the single largest employer summarily supplanting any hint of capitalism. We are mired in a universal policy of governing by bribery and corruption, with all businesses being ignored and trampled under the foot of regulators and their open palms. All offices here are bought and sold at extravagant prices and the debt for this thievery is laid on the shoulders of the people with the highest taxes in the country.
Yet, even as the money flows uninhibited into the pockets of our "elected" officials in both parties, Illinois is falling apart. Roads, bridges, hospitals and schools are crumbling and those that have been built are of the lowest quality because so much of the money has gone to grasping unions, bribes and graft.
And, again, the people are hard squeezed to enrich the placemen that sit fat and happy with obscene health care and pension programs that far exceed anything that can be gotten in the private sector. These thieves at the public trough work a few years, maybe a decade of two, then spend half a lifetime on vacation assured by unelected union thugs and their accomplices in "government" that no further work is required of them. The forced "generosity" of the taxpayers is assumed the endless wellspring for funding their undeserved leisure time...
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Their ROI comes from the power of the position. That power allows them pursue their agenda. The longer they are in office the more power they accumulate. The more they accumulate the more attractive and favorable they become to their constituents. Their elective position becomes a career and it is very deficult for a rival to defeat them.
Power = Money the substitution is universal
When did America stop being America?
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Hard to pinpoint a time but her fate was sealed when restrictions on voting were lifted and the people who made things run started going along with the goofy notion that everyone over the age of eighteen should vote even if they have zero idea of what they are really voting for.
The counsel of the wise is of no help if it is smothered by the babbling of fools who fancy themselves wise beyond measure.
good point.
I took my wife out to dinner and as we often do, we talked about the Blago mess and the connection to Obama. The other tables are not that far away and I’m sure other people hear what we say. We get MANY strange and angry looks. We live in DuPage County just outside of Chicago which USED to be a VERY Republican county but not anymore. Illinois has literally turned into a sewer of DemocRAT politics with a few much smaller areas of conservatives. I think we hold the recored for most govenors serving time and now we have infected the entire country with Obama.
Sorry, I can’t buy that. IL is now a one party state, but even within that party there are those who want to do the right thing. But they never get elected.
Subsidies are becoming the largest industry in the US. You can imagine where that will get us....
Yes, Chicago dominates the rest of the state and that’s the problem.
A little off-topic ... I was shocked on my most recent visit to Chicago by the condition of some of the overpasses, rail overpasses, etc. I know that ton of salt is put on the road, but do you EVER repaint those things (the steel girders and trusses)? It’s conceivable that they hadn’t been painted in 40+ years from the looks of them.
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